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My daughter is off at camp for a week.... lucky girl! And I miss her dreadfully, but to fill the void - I am getting to spend some quality time in my studio!! HOORAY! Because I normally work full-time, getting long periods in my studio is a very rare thing. SO what have I done? Well, I've played with my new camera (hoping to learn enough to get some good bird shots to use as reference for painting), I also have been cleaning and organizing my studio space, AND I've been painting.

Am I getting 8+ hours a day of painting done?? No. sigh. It's amazing how so many things crop up to kill my "free" time (sick dogs, household chores, multiple date-nights with my wonderful hubby, and a guilty pleasure I like to call Pokeman Go).

Here is the beginning of my current painting. I started off under-painting it with shadows (an experiment based on Judy Treman's book Building Brilliant Watercolors, in which she expounds about the magic of disappearing purple). …